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WATER RESOURCE CENTER

Water Management Tools
April 11, 2016

Over the coming year the USGA will assemble and post to these pages sample Best Management Plans (BMPs) from around the country to illustrate how golf facilities are using water responsibly and making the most of this very important natural resource. Be sure to check back frequently as more BMPs and content on a wide variety of issues associated with golf’s use of water will continue to be posted.

A water budget is an estimate of the amount of irrigation water that will be used by a golf course throughout the course of the year. Water budgets vary based upon a number of factors. Download the USGA Water Budget calculator for use with Microsoft Excel by clicking the link above.

To learn more about the USGA Water Budget Calculator and how to use it, visit the following links:

The primary use of this document is to provide a detailed “template” for a golf course superintendent and club officials to develop a site-specific BMPs (best management practices) plan for water-use efficiency /conservation for their golf course facility.

Prepared by the Water Management Committee of the Irrigation Association, the purpose of this document is to provide landscape irrigation stakeholders with BMPs for irrigation of turf and landscapes, including the design, installation, maintenance and management of turf and landscape irrigation systems in ways that save water and protect water quality.